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Extra.ie
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Extra.ie
Dustin the Turkey to 'run for Irish presidency'
Dustin the Turkey plans to 'give back' to the people of Ireland by running to replace Michael D Higgins as the nation's next president. The iconic turkey has announced his intention to run for the position and is prepared to challenge Fine Gael candidate Mairead McGuinness and independent TD Catherine Connolly after their recent campaign confirmations. Dustin told RTE Entertainment: 'Look, I'll be honest with you – I am willing to move to a smaller property, I will go to the Phoenix Park and I will embrace it. Olympic boxer and brand ambassador Jack Marley with Dustin the Turkey at the relaunch of Chadwicks Sallynoggin. Pic: Conor McCabe Photography 'I can do stupid poems in Irish like your man, Mickey D Higgins, and funny enough, Michael D said to me, 'Dustin, you should go for it and I'll leave my wardrobe here at Áras an Uachtaráin because it is the exact same size, it will fit you', so I can just go straight up. 'Now, he has bit more of a Ned Kelly then me but I'd be straight into Áras an Uachtaráin and you know, my First Lady, or Vogue Williams as she is known, would be great, too.' This is not the first time Dustin has declared his intention to be Ireland's head of state. In 1997, the singer and tv host ran against Mary Robinson in an ultimately unsuccessful bid for office. He continued: 'The short answer is of course I will be running for the presidency, I am not ruling myself out because the people of Ireland have been good to me and I should be giving back to them. 'I ran against Mary Robinson and she was a good president but she put a light in the window and left the door open and that's a dangerous thing to do on the north side. 'Then we had Mary McAleese and then we nearly had a lad from Cavan, that's how bad this country was getting but Mickey D stepped in and I think he was a good president apart from the stupid poems as Gaeilge but he is a good, honest man.' Dustin the Turkey also ran for presidency in 1997. Pic: RTÉ Dustin announced his ambitions while opening the newly refurbished branch of hardware shop Chadwicks in his native Sallynoggin, Dublin. The veteran bird is supporting his local hardware shop as a way of repaying the neighbourhood that raised him before he gained fame as the host of RTE kids show 'The Den'. Dustin added: 'The people of Sallynoggin raised me. It is one of those communities where you can leave your back door open. Now, you'll get robbed, but you can leave your back door open. They'll even rob the back door. 'When Chadwicks told me they were refurbin', I put in a tender for it, right? But apparently, some Eastern European builders got it because they turn up in time and charge a fair price and come back if there's anything wrong with the job.' Despite his big ambitions, Dustin is not limiting his campaigning to just the Irish presidency. He believes he could fall back on the vacant Liveline position left open by the recent departure of Joe Duffy, should his Áras bid fall through. He said: 'Me and Joe get on well. Joe was the ringmaster of a circus full of clowns and I'd be able to continue that on Liveline. You get all the nuts and madsters coming on and you just say, 'dear god, dear god, dear god . . . I don't know what to do' and you get a quarter a million a year. It's that simple.'
Yahoo
12-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
MN Turkey Growers, Turkey Research Council elect board members, officers
Jul. 11—BUFFALO — The Minnesota Turkey Growers Association and the Minnesota Turkey Research and Promotion Council elected board members and officers during the 2025 Summer Summit last month in Alexandria. The 2025-2026 officer team for the Minnesota Growers Association will continue with Jake Vlaminck, of as president; Shane Wilhelm, of Richmond, as vice president; and Nate Van Beck, of as treasurer, according to a news release from the association. Newly elected to the board of directors is Josh Meyer, of The Minnesota Turkey Research and Promotion Council re-elected Butch Brey, of New Ulm, as president; with Tim Miller, of Hanska, as vice president; and Peter Gruhl, of Willmar, as treasurer. Newly elected to the promotion council's board of directors is Thomas Schwarz, of LeSueur. The Summer Summit event also featured award presentations, educational sessions and updates on the latest advancements in turkey production, health, marketing and policy, according to the news release. Gorica Rajcic-Spasojevic, of Willmar, was among the individuals honored for contributions to Minnesota's turkey industry. Rajcic-Spasojevic received the Allied Industry Lifetime Achievement Award. John Zimmerman, of Northfield, was honored with the Ranelius Award for dedicated service and leadership. Dr. Brian Hoefs, Minnesota state veterinarian, was given the President's Award for outstanding advocacy and community outreach on behalf of turkey growers. The works to enhance the success of the turkey industry through member engagement and education, advocacy with legislators and public outreach that includes training and youth programs to emphasize career opportunities, according to its website. The is the body that oversees voluntary checkoff dollars. According to its website, the council initiates research on industry challenges including turkey health and welfare, promotes turkey consumption and educates the public about its nutritional benefits.
Forbes
09-07-2025
- Health
- Forbes
CDC Bird Flu Response Cuts Could Lead To Another Pandemic
TOWNSEND, DE - NOVEMBER 14: Bill Powers checks on his flock of white turkeys, which have been kept ... More under shelter all year to prevent exposure to avian influenza, at his family's farm on November 14, 2022 in Townsend, Delaware. Some turkey distributors are warning of higher prices and lower availability ahead of Thanksgiving after supply chain issues, inflation and fears over avian influenza affected the 2022 season. (Photo by) Bird flu remains a risk in the U.S., but we don't know as much about its threat level because the CDC stopped conducting much surveillance some time ago. They never did the kind of studies some experts had wanted. Reported cases of bird flu are down now. Some of that may be seasonal shifts. Budget cuts at health departments likely contribute to this. More than 20% of the Veterinary Services arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and 16% of those in the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service have left in response to President Trump and Elon Musk's efforts to shrink the government. Immigrant farm workers who get bird flu symptoms are undoubtedly reluctant to seek care amid the growing ICE crackdowns and imprisonment. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on July 7 that it was ending its emergency response for H5N1 bird flu. It will now report infections only on a monthly basis, combined with influenza activity. Infection rates in animals will no longer be reported on the CDC's page, but will be moved to the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services avian flu page. Infections Don't Recognize Borders Infections may have slowed in the U.S., but since January 2025, the World Health Organization has recorded 964 cases and 466 deaths from bird flu in 24 countries. While the CDC is dropping reporting animal infections, one should note that there is a problem on an ostrich farm in British Columbia. At least 70 of the 400 ostriches there died of bird flu this spring. Owners have resisted efforts to cull the flock, which is the standard response to an infected flock. States have restricted the transport of infected animals across state lines, and the USDA restricts importation from countries with H5N1 infections. Showing an apparent lack of understanding of how infections spread, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Dr. Mehmet Oz, now administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, proposed relocating the ostriches from Canada to Oz's ranch in Okeechobee, Florida. Kennedy went so far as to appeal to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to cancel the cull. He was unsuccessful. Kennedy's proposal At the same time that we are cutting surveillance, some experts are concerned that Kennedy's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry could set us up for a pandemic. In fact, in this week's Science, several argue that this 'let 'er rip' approach would be 'dangerous and unethical.' Their concern is that by allowing the virus free rein, it will more likely spread and mutate, resulting in a pandemic. Gigi Gronvall, PhD, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, explains: 'The thing that we are most concerned about is that H5N1 could reassort with a circulating flu virus and gain the ability to transmit between humans. Anything we could do to reduce that likelihood, we should be doing. That includes vaccinating people against what's currently (influenza) circulating and also against H5N1.' Angela Rasmussen, PhD, a virologist now at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, added to Gronvall's concerns, stating in her Substack, 'If they take another tip from Kennedy and start prophylactically dosing the birds with oseltamivir (Tamiflu), this will select for viruses that are resistant to our first line class of antiviral drugs. The 'Let 'Er Rip' plan for bird flu is a really, really bad idea that will have severe health, economic, agricultural, environmental, and food security consequences. Because this plan is to basically do nothing.' She is equally scathing in her comments about surveillance (or lack thereof) and why numbers of cases are decreasing. Vaccines For Bird Flu There's one major problem with Gronvall's recommendation. Kennedy doesn't like these bird flu vaccines, it appears. He has stated that he believes mRNA vaccines to be dangerous and canceled the contract with Moderna to further develop the leading candidate. The other bird flu vaccine we have in the national stockpile comes in multidose vials with the preservative thimerosal—which Kennedy's hand-picked advisory panel on vaccines voted to ban last week due to unsupported concerns that it causes autism. We have no other options. When I previously spoke with Saskia Popescu, Ph.D., an assistant professor of biodefense at George Mason University, she had emphasized concerns over the lack of surveillance. She and others are very worried about the impact of cuts domestic and international health efforts such as USAID, GAVI, WHO, and other global health partners. She noted, 'Global biosurveillance is a really critical resource. Early detection only happens if you are collaborating with people. And I'm very concerned that we're slowly but surely losing that capacity.' Another of Popescu's widely shared concerns is about the growing misinformation and rejection of expertise. A recent example is the reaction to the recent new Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommendations, which are not evidence or science-based. Popescu noted, 'So during emergencies and any that might be coming up, we will have a population that feels unsure if they can trust any guidance that's given to them. And on top of that, I genuinely do worry that any guidance that is given to them may not be evidence based if provided from increasingly politicized non-experts.' The fallout from Kennedy and ACIP is so bad that leading medical professional societies and a pregnant patient have just sued HHS and Kennedy for firing the ACIP committee members and replacing them unjustly. They also object to the new restrictions on COVID-19 vaccines, which would prevent healthy teens, adults, and pregnant women from receiving them. Furthermore, the American Academy of Pediatrics states that it will continue to make its own recommendations for vaccinating children. Others are following suit. If H5N1 bird flu is allowed to spread unchecked in poultry flocks and if it becomes easily transmissible to humans, where will the lack of surveillance, the lack of mRNA vaccines, the banning of the non-mRNA vaccine due to its incorporation of thimerosal, and the general mistrust of evidence-based guidance leave us?
Wall Street Journal
29-05-2025
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Hormel Foods Trims Guidance, Citing Tariff Impact
Hormel Foods HRL -1.22%decrease; red down pointing triangle trimmed its earnings outlook for the year, which factors in the impact of tariffs and ongoing momentum of brands such as Planters peanuts and its turkey product. The Austin, Minn.-based food company on Thursday lowered the top end of its per-share earnings guidance by a few cents for the year, and said that tariffs could dent the top line by 1 cent to 2 cents a share in the back half of the year.
New York Times
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
The Best Turkey Meatballs I've Ever Made
I finally met a turkey meatball I love, after years of trying. Ground turkey is bland compared with beef and pork, which sets me up for a lackluster meatball. The texture is often problematic, too: dry, dense or both. But Ali Slagle, borrowing a trick from the cookbook author Julia Turshen, adds a good amount of ricotta cheese to the turkey mixture. The result is a pan of meatballs so tender that you can easily slice into them with a spoon as you scoop up saucy bites from your bowl. When I made these meatballs for dinner last week, it was far too hot outside for a buttery sauce and mashed potatoes on the side, as the recipe suggests — delicious, but wintry. So I tossed about a pint of halved cherry tomatoes into the pan and let them cook down along with the meatballs, and then served it all with toast. Light, bright: This is my summer 2025 meatball dinner. I will not be making meatballs this week, however — I'm heading to Chicago! Melissa Clark and I will be chatting about home cooking at the Chicago Humanities festival this Saturday, May 10, at the Ramova Theater at 11 a.m. Tickets are here. Chicagoans, I would love to meet you in person.
